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eDiscovery Conference for Small to Medium Cases – eDiscovery Trends
 eDiscovery Conference for Small to Medium Cases – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Last week, I told you about a two-day program being hosted in my hometown of Houston by The Sedona Conference®. Here is another conference that you can attend no matter where you are, for a very reasonable price!

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Laura Zubulake, Author of “Zubulake’s e-Discovery” – eDiscovery Trends
 Laura Zubulake, Author of “Zubulake’s e-Discovery” – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Laura Zubulake. Laura worked on Wall Street for 20 years in institutional equity departments and, in 1991, authored the book The Complete Guide to Convertible Securities Worldwide. She was the plaintiff in the Zubulake vs. UBS Warburg case, which resulted in several landmark opinions related to eDiscovery and counsel’s obligations for the preservation of electronically stored information. The December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were influenced, in part, by the Zubulake case. In 2012, Laura published a book titled Zubulake’s e-Discovery: The Untold Story of my Quest for Justice, previously discussed on this blog and she speaks professionally about eDiscovery topics and her experiences related to the case.

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James D. Zinn, Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group – eDiscovery Trends
 James D. Zinn, Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is James D. Zinn. James is Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group. James leads the technology team at Huron Legal, which includes the data collection, processing, hosting, production, and forensic analysis services along with infrastructure, support, and software development. James has extensive experience managing the strategic and tactical use of technology within investigative and litigation consulting matters.

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Tom Gelbmann of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC – eDiscovery Trends
 Tom Gelbmann of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Tom Gelbmann. Tom is Principal of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC. Since 1993, Gelbmann & Associates, LLC, is a consulting practice serving the legal services industry. Tom has an extensive record of working with law firms, corporate counsel and legal services providers as a consultant, advisor, project manager, and has also held the CIO position at two major law firms. Tom has also been co-author of the leading survey on the electronic discovery market, The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey; in 2011 he and George Socha converted the Survey into Apersee, an online system for selecting eDiscovery providers and their offerings. In 2005, he and George Socha launched the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project to establish standards within the eDiscovery industry – today, the EDRM model has become a standard in the industry for the eDiscovery life cycle.

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Houston, Hello! The Sedona Conference is Coming! – eDiscovery Trends
 Houston, Hello! The Sedona Conference is Coming! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

If you’re in my hometown of Houston and want to learn more about eDiscovery from a well-respected panel of judges and eDiscovery experts, you have an excellent opportunity next month to do so at The 8th Annual Sedona Conference® Institute Program on eDiscovery in a New Era: New Technologies, New Media, New Rules.

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Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery – eDiscovery Trends
 Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery. Brad has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, as well as 15 years leading customer focused companies in the litigation support arena. Brad also writes the Litigation Support Industry Blog, which covers news about litigation support and eDiscovery companies’ funding activities, acquisitions & mergers and notable business successes. He has authored several articles on document management and litigation support issues, and has appeared as a speaker before national audiences on document management practices and solutions. He’s also my boss!

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Dispute over Production Format and Search Terms for Electronic Discovery Highlights the Need for Cooperation – eDiscovery Case Law
 Dispute over Production Format and Search Terms for Electronic Discovery Highlights the Need for Cooperation – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Saliga v. Chemtura Corp., a discrimination case heard by Connecticut Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez, the plaintiff and the defendants had spent a year arguing over the format of production for Electronically Stored Information (ESI) to be used in discovery, as well as relevant search terms, before the plaintiff filed a motion to compel.

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Bad Faith Violations in Discovery Lead to Sanctions for Defendant – eDiscovery Case Law
 Bad Faith Violations in Discovery Lead to Sanctions for Defendant – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

Regarding the case In re Pradaxa (Dabigatran Etexilate) Products Liability Litigation, the defendants’ repeated failure to preserve and produce documents during discovery was found to be in bad faith. The defendants were ordered to produce the documents, or to explain why they couldn’t be produced, and to pay a hefty fine plus the plaintiff’s costs and fees for pursuing discovery motions. The order left room for additional future sanctions, should the bad faith behavior continue.

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Announcing Fourth Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series! – eDiscovery Trends
 Announcing Fourth Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Bad weather, travel cancellations and stolen laptops could not keep us from keeping the tradition alive. It’s time for another thought leader interview series! In our efforts to continue to bring our readers perspectives from various thought leaders throughout the eDiscovery community, eDiscoveryDaily has published several thought leader interviews over the nearly 3 1/2 years of our existence. We’re pleased to introduce the schedule for the series, which will begin next Monday, February 24.

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EDRM Updates Privacy & Security Risk Reduction Model – eDiscovery Best Practices
 EDRM Updates Privacy & Security Risk Reduction Model – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

As they announced last week, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) announced the reintroduction and refinement of its Privacy & Security Risk Reduction Model (PSRRM). Initially introduced last September by EDRM’s Data Set group (and covered on this blog here), the model provides a process for reducing the volume of private, protected and risky data by using a series of steps applied in sequence as part of the information management, identification, preservation and collection phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model.

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